 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...the day ! The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shame! Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below." 310 The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill; COMMENTARY.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...happiness consists in virtue, by shewing, that it did not consist in any thing else NOTES. Ver. 309. Know then this truth (enough for Man to know) " Virtue alone is happiness below."] M. Du Resnel translates the lines thus : " Appren done, qu'il n'est point ici bas de bonheur, Si la... | |
 | Samuel Oliver (jun.) - 1825 - 418 pages
...the most beautiful existing, yet the apostrophe of the possessive case is a blemish. * Elphinstone. The Parenthesis: ( ) A Parenthesis is a clause containing...sentence obliquely, and which may be omitted without injury to the grammatick construction ; as ; " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale, that blends their glory with their shanu ! n for Thomas Tegg The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...the day ; The whole amount of that enormous fame, A tale that blends their glory with their shame ! Know then this truth (enough for man to know) , ' Virtue alone is happiness below :' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1825 - 82 pages
...Exclamation point ! The Parenthefis ( ) as, " Are you fincere J" " How excellent is a grateful heart !" " Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) " Virtue alone is ha)ipinels below." The following characters are alfo frequently ufed in competition. An Apoftrophe,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1827 - 274 pages
...collateral fact, is brought into the body of a sentence, it is enclosed in parenthetic lines. Thus: Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below. He loves nobody, (I speak of friendship,) who is not jealous when he has partners in love. Know ye... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 292 pages
...wife, The trophy'd arches, story'd halls invade, And haunt their slumbers in the pompous shade. . ***** Know then this truth, (enough for man to know) ' Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where... | |
 | C D. Golland, Mrs. C. D. Haynes Golland - 1827 - 594 pages
...consists only in the practice of virtue ; and now, to dismiss the subject, in the words of the poet — ' Know then, this truth, enough for man to know, , Virtue alone is happiness below." As the hour was now getting late, he I 3 did not resume his reading, and the conversation became more... | |
 | José J. Villarino - Spanish language - 1828 - 520 pages
...Spanish books, it may be proper to remark, that it sounds like z before a, o, u. () Parentcsis — Parenthesis. A parenthesis is a clause containing...omitted without injuring the grammatical construction. Example: Hai vicios (dice Tiberio) mas poderosos que el poder de los tiranos. There are vices (says... | |
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Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below. 
